1: five cannons of rhetoric

2: eloquence

describe the emphasis placed on civic virtue and life in rhetoric during the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Plato is concerned in the difference between true knowledge and mere belief because one deals with faith and the other with facts. True knowledge is the absolute clearest truth one can say. In relationship to rhetoric, true knowledge is using true facts to back your argument or support your stance. With mere belief, you have no concrete evidence to support your claim or point. In the justice system, facts can save or damn a person on whether or not they committed a crime. If you just merely believed that he did it, you may condemn an innocent man, but, if you find the true knowledge or facts, then you may lock away a killer or save an innocent man.

At first, rhetoric to me was almost a synonym for grammar. I thought it meant a logical structure of words od phrases. Now, I realize that rhetoric is so much more than that. Rhetoric to me now is the way one crafts an argument or stance to gain favor or sway with a specific audience. What I mean by thus is that one would craft a speech for example and target that speech for a specific audience, choosing words that would trigger the desired response from that audience. This would also mean that rhetoric encompasses multiple writing strategies, such as ethos, logos, pathos, similes, and metaphors to name a few. This yet again changes my definition of rhetoric to: Devices, grammatical structure, and knowledge and mastery over the English language to effectively craft and deliver a speech and obtain the desired effect